What can I say, this is where I first heard New Jersey's Hades. Most the bands on here were from Jersey, and one of them from NY. The bands are pretty obscure, and prolly aren't all to relevant to many people(cept for maybe Hades). The bands did however have a impact on me. The Sneak Attack song "ultrasonic metal" is brilliant. I can listen to that song over and over and over. Its epic.
This record came out during the time in metal when strange things were happening. You had Nwobhm style bands trying to jump ship, and start playing faster, and heavier because it was sorta easy to see that that was the future of metal. I think you can sorta hear that in most these bands on this comp, they are semi stuck in a weird metal purgatory.
I'm sorta shocked that I bought this record because the cover art is just so awful. Back then the cover was helpful in selling me a record. Today I think the cover is bad, in a good way. Its funny, and made me laugh when I pulled it out after years of neglect.
The Tortured Dog song "can't run from evil" has a few skips in it. I kept it on anyways, because its a awesome song. Please comment.

I remember seeing this in the cut-out bins when the record stores stated to get rid of all the vinyl.The cover was so bad I woul'nt even pay a buck for this back in the day,now I have no choice but to hear it........http://convulsingdischargeofinanity.blogspot.com/

Luis Ocampo (medellin). I'm following that strange stuffs, specially the band 'The Beast'.I'm looking all about this band, like demos and more material. Here we know one copy of the 7" ep. I'ts really amazing. fernandocampo@terra.com

Tortured Dog, oh yes, my local heroes! Ralph, the guitarist was asked by Mustaine to join the first Megadeth line up, he declined. He ended up playing the blues and is still very active musically with an instrumental surf band called The Octomen. He wrote more than an entire album's worth of songs for megaforce records back in the early 80's but they refused to record or release any of his music. Rock on Rattlesnake Ralph, you're still great dude!